Senior React Native Engineer

Restive; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Restive is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer in Sydney to join an established product engineering team, delivering customer-facing mobile features for iOS and Android. You will work within an existing architecture, authentication model and component library, focusing on performance, reliability and code quality.

You will own features end-to-end, collaborating with product, design and engineering, and contribute to code reviews and releases in a fintech-like product environment.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with React Native.
• Experience shipping production apps on iOS and Android.
• Experience integrating mobile apps with APIs and backend services.
• Strong mobile UI/UX understanding.
• Experience building reusable component-based mobile apps.
• Solid testing and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong code review and code quality practices.
• Ability to own features from development to release.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Fast ramp-up in new environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver features within an established React Native mobile application.
• Take features from requirements and design through development, testing and release.
• Work within the existing application architecture, authentication model and component library.
• Integrate mobile features with APIs and backend services.
• Develop high-quality, reusable and maintainable mobile components.
• Maintain strong standards around performance, reliability and code quality.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions and engineering decisions.
• Collaborate closely with product, design and engineering teams.
• Support production releases across iOS and Android.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mobile application issues.
• Take ownership of features end-to-end and contribute effectively within an established product environment.

Skills

React Native

iOS/Android deployment

APIs integration

UI/UX understanding

Testing & quality

Code reviews

Ownership of features

Communication & collaboration

Fast ramp-up

Tools

Expo

Job description

We're looking for a Senior React Native Engineer to join an established product engineering team working on a customer-facing, banking-style mobile application.

You'll be joining an existing product where the core architecture,authentication and component library are already in place. The focus will be on building and shipping new customer-facing features across iOS and Android while maintaining strong standards around performance, reliability and code quality.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role suited to someone who can quickly understand an established mobile environment, take ownership of features end-to-end and contribute with minimal ramp-up.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and deliver new features within an established React Native mobile application
• Take features from requirements and design through development, testing and release
• Work within the existing application architecture, authentication model and component library
• Integrate mobile features with APIs and backend services
• Develop high-quality, reusable and maintainable mobile components
• Maintain strong standards around performance, reliability and code quality
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions and engineering decisions
• Collaborate closely with product, design and engineering teams
• Support production releases across iOS and Android
• Troubleshoot and resolve mobile application issues
• Take ownership of features end-to-end and contribute effectively within an established product environment

REQUIREMENTS

• Strong commercial experience with React Native
• Proven experience shipping production applications across iOS and Android
• Strong experience integrating mobile applications with APIs and backend services
• Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX
• Experience building reusable, component-based mobile applications
• Good understanding of testing and modern software engineering practices
• Strong code review and code quality practices
• Ability to independently take ownership of features from development through to release
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to contribute quickly with minimal ramp-up

Highly desirable

• Experience with Expo
• Experience managing releases through the Apple App Store and Google Play
• Fintech, banking or lending experience
• Experience working with other regulated products
• Experience developing secure customer applications and handling sensitive customer data
• Experience working with established design systems or component libraries